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...will be successful in 14% of the cases; in the third ten-hour period, 8%. Dr. deTakats: "Embolectomy is futile after 48 hours or even before that if there is a manifest gangrene, or on patients in whom the underlying disease is apt to be fatal shortly, as in septic endocarditis or terminal cardiac decompensation." Dr. Murray: "There are few operations in surgery so eminently satisfactory in selected cases or attended by such potentiality for good as embolectomy for arterial embolus...
...colder and harder while the rest of the meal is being prepared." Of party manners: "You will, of course, want to appear well-bred. So hand your hostess a dead fish, do the profile twist, and confine all conversational effort to words such as 'ghastly!' or 'septic!'" Of geniuses: They are forgiven after they are dead; poor sportsmen: never...
Valuable though less spectacular has been Dr. Williams' work in poliomyelitis, meningitis, influenza. Of late years she has been studying the streptococci which cause scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal (childbed) fever, septic sore throat. Last week she did not want to stop. New York physicians agreed that her work should not be interrupted. Dr. Williams' famed chief, Dr. Williams Hallock Park, who resisted a retirement move when he reached 70 last December, did not see how he could spare her. Said he: "We have very good bacteriologists in the department, but they haven't the breadth of view...
Three months later she dies of a septic abortion. The interne's friend and mentor (J. Edward Bromberg), a famed surgeon, appears to announce: "Jehovah and Aesculapius-they both demand their human sacrifices." The interne then makes up his mind what he is going to do with his life. Excellent scene, recommendable to those who will want to make a cinema out of Men in White: the operating theatre, with the attendants meticulously scrubbing and rinsing themselves...
Died. Gloria, 9, eldest of Broadway Colyumist Walter Winchell's two daughters; of septic pneumonia, Christmas night; in Manhattan...